Pope Francis’s Managerial Revolution

Pope Francis’s Managerial Revolution

Upon his election in 2013, some expected Pope Francis to undo the excesses of the imperial papacy, the model of centralized church governance associated with proclamation of papal infallibility at Vatican I. But even as Francis promised to prioritize horizontal governance, he leaned into the vertical exercise of power, “just doing things” in ways that would have stunned his predecessor Pius IX. He did so, however, in a novel way. The Francis pap…